slowtime’s Reviews > The Speed of Dark > Status Update

This book got really hard to read really fast. Is there no ASAN in this world? Is there no ADA? Also, I'm reading this on audiobook, and the narrator's take on the other neurodiverse characters borders really heavily on insulting. They all manage to sound like some blunted version of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

Okay, so the ableist stuff is getting hard to handle. I know it's coming from a villain, but I don't know how much of it I want to expose myself to. It's bad enough just reading the other reviews - "Unfortunately he was too late for the cure," and "Trapped in an autistic shell." They see Crenshaw and don't recognize themselves in it because he's a cartoon, but it's all the same ignorance. I'm so very tired.

Can't tell yet if I'm going to love this or violently hate it. So far the first chapter has had me pumping my fist in joyous recognition...but the whole "cure" thing is such an offensive concept, and if that's where the narrative is leading, I expect to have a tangle of strong emotions that I won't know how to process, and anger will definitely be one of them.